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No one got engaged in London, Paris, Rome??? Hong Kong, Bombay, Jakarta???
My engagement is boring, lol! But I am a sucker for romantic stories...can't wait to hear them all. I am glad you posted this :)
I am still officially "waiting", and I am super jealous of your proposal! I want to eat at The French Laundry so bad! That's so amazing and romantic.
Sounds AMAZING! Wow :) I am excited about hearing the stories too!
I am still waiting as well.. Mine is such a simple man, I would be stunned and beyond impressed if he pulled off something like that!
I am sure you waiting girls will have an AMAZING engagement!!! I was completely inspired to write this by so many waiting bees who have gotten engaged lately!!! Being engaged passes so fast! So I want everyone to completely go back to how they felt when it happened...before wedding planning takes over your life...
I asked for a cheesy ballpark proposal in semi-jest.
Haha. I think he is way, way too shy for that, but it would be the proposal of my dreams. I am an obsessed Twins fan, and we just got a new field this year. So yeah, I would pretty much be the happiest girl in the world if he actually chose to do it that way.
@Ms.Caniche I know this is off the subject, but where are you getting married? I looked at a couple venues in OC and used to live in Seal Beach. Just curious :) We live in SD now, but I definitely miss OC sometimes.
@ILikePink- OMG That would be amazing!!! Do not go to a game without a camera! I will be in Minneapolis in June... Should I check out a game if there is one while I am there????
@britromance-I am getting married in Laguna Beach. I grew up in Laguna Hills which is the city next door. I was very traditional in wanting to stay close to where I grew up :)
Where are you in SD? My mom grew up in La Mesa and my Aunt and Uncle live in Point Loma.
That is such an awesome story, how lucky you are! Truly something to remember for a lifetime and tell your kids about (if you're having any).
We're poor students without the funds to orchestrate something really extreme, but I did do a lot of pulling, twisting, and turning of circumstances to plan an extremely memorable and thoughtful proposal for my FI. Nothing very extreme though (aside from the whole gender role reversal thing, with me proposing), we got engaged on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his hometown of NYC and then went for dinner at our favorite restaurant afterwards (I had to convince him to celebrate New Year's Eve a day early and not exchange Christmas presents till the day we left for this all to work...not easy to arrange!).
@MS. Caniche. You should! This is before the stadium was finished, but it's the view at night.
Your story is like a fairytale, Ms. Caniche!
We had a super sweet and romantic proposal around the holidays. However, before he proposed I thought he was going to do it in the summer when we went white-water rafting for our 5th anniversary. There was a point on the river where we were filmed as we jumped off his huge cliff into the river. I was so bummed it didn't happen then! How cool would that be? But when it happened I was so glad he did it the way he did, rather than in front of a bunch of people we didn't know. It was perfect for us.
Besides, me + engagement ring + white-water rafting= terrible idea! ;)
@Ms. Caniche...I totally understand that! I love love love Laguna...so beautiful. We are incredibly lucky to live in such beautiful places.
@veganglam- NYC is a dream for so many girls!!!! And the MET steps...how romantic...Lucky girl! BTW my mom is Vegan and I LOVE Vegan cuisine... not sure if you have a Veggie Grill where you are... but I love their "chicken" Sandwich!
@Katerrific- The water rafting would have totally been extreme!!!! I would be nervous for the ring in his pocket during the trip?!?! What will you guys do on your HM? White Water Rafting is extreme in my book :)
@IlikePink- OMG I love it when stadiums are in the middle of cities... I think it is beautiful! I have another Aunt and Uncle who live in Plymouth... Maybe they will go to a game with me. Thanks!!!
@Ms. Caniche, yeah. NYC is MY dream too, lucky me finding a NYC boy to go with my aspirations! :D
And no, we have no Veggie Grills over here! So sad because I've heard about it and it sounds crazy good. You SoCal ladies have soooo many incredible vegetarian restaurants and vegan bakeries and other options like that. NYC is extremely vegan friendly and I still have major southern California veggie lust. Not to mention all the fresh produce that grows in your state, for so cheap...what an awesome place, no wonder there are so many amazing options. Now I'm really, really hungry for things that are 2800 miles away :(
And how neat that you grew up near Laguna Beach and are marrying there. I visited when I was eleven and was so struck by its beauty. I still remember eating at a restaurant on the cliff overlooking the beach and feeling like it was something from a dream!
VeganGlam- Thank you!!! IF you are even in SoCal... i will take you to both Veggie Grill and Native Foods (they have baja tacos, to die for) Never had vegan in NYC... Trying to make a trip this summer (trying is the key word)
Ladies I heart you all but my bed is calling me... A demain, i'm sure.
Fun thread! Ours wasn't dramatic per se, but was perfect for us. He surprised me with a trip out to Montauk after a really busy and stressful time, so it didn't raise too many flags. We got out to the lighthouse at the point on the beach and he told me he found something for me. (He's always giving me rocks, seashells, etc). It was a little box made out of gaffer tape, a replica of one he gave me years ago that originally had a little ring made of tape in it, that I had lost. This one had an engagement ring! It was perfect, and 1 month to the day shy of our 5 year anniversary, and we're having our wedding on a beach this September.
Well mine is kind of similar I suppose, except the trip was planned. We planned a trip to NYC for a last fun thing before my senior year of college. We flew up to NYC and stayed for 4 days. On day 2, we went out to dinner in Time Square and went walking in Central Park afterwards. We were on a dock next to a little pond and he got down on one knee. It was the sweetest thing ever!
Mine wasn't very extreme. We're also poor college students! lol. But we did go out to Olive garden for dinner then he proposed on the Peir looking over Lake Michigan. He knew it was one of my most favoirite spots!
But one of my friends' boyfriends proposed to her on top of sand dunes looking over Lake Michigan. He had a friend he knew who owned a plane fly over top of them and drop down a box and inside the box was a scrapbook that he made of their first year together and it also had the ring in it. Then the guy landed the plane after he proposed and took pictures of them.
I thought that sounded so romantic!
Dang, that is totally a movie proposal!
PS i used to play ball in Laguna Hills a lot! I grew up in fullerton =]
ours was a little extreme. we took a 2 hour ATV tour up to a waterfall in costa rica. we were covered in dust and sweat by the time we got up there. the tour company made it so we had total privacy up there and he proposed right in front of the waterfall--we were standing in about 2 inches of water and on rocks. they also had a bottle of wine for us. the trip down was fun--took another two hours, and i was slightly tipsy and extremely giddy. he did a great job getting it all set up--in a foreign country even!
Wow, that is such a great story!
I don't know if ours counts as 'extreme' per se, but I still love it. FI proposed to me at the top of Mt Fuji in Japan. We were living in Japan at the time, and at the end of our time there we went on a trip to Tokyo and a side trip to Fuji. The climb took about 10 hours, and it was overnight (and in the pouring rain!) so we could get to the summit for sunrise. It was so perfect and such a great way to cap off our year in Japan!
The best part was that since we were flying home in a few days, we kept it a secret and 'announced' our engagement to our families at the airport (we had a pretty big welcome home crew). The looks of surprise were totally worth it!
It had been my birthday a week before and my present was a romantic stay at a fancy lodge - we had our own balcony overlooking the bush with out own spa. We'd just been to buy champagne (which I thought was strange because we'd brought wine) and a tub of icecream.
Well, as I'm sitting on the balcony, eating straight from the tub of icecream, he starts talking about how that past 4 years had been great and did I want to make it the rest of our lives? Of course, I'm just going yeah, that'd be nice and still eating my icecream.
Then he got down on one knee, proposed. My first response between a mouthful of icecream was "serious?" followed by "yeah of course!"
We went to have the champagne, but realised we didn't have one so we improvised by filling the kettle with ice and sticking the bottle in there. Then we spent the rest of the night relaxing in the spa - the perfect ending to an eventful night.
my guy is super thoughtful, but romance isn't his forte.. we got engaged at a kenny chesney concert with a taco bell hot sauce packet.. you know- those ones that say will you marry me:)
@Kare7213- On a pier looking over Lake Michigan sounds sooo romantic! It is extremely beautiful there... Unfortunately most of my trips around any of the great lakes end up being in November or some really cold month:(
@blondeebuckeye- I want to go to Costa Rica soooo bad. You are one lucky girl. I be the rainforest around was incredibly beautiful. A bottle of wine and a waterfall! That is my kind of ATV-ing!!! Congrats on your engagement!
@Catherine-I have always wanted to go to Japan. FI has been twice. Climbing Mt. Fuji is such a feat in its own! Congrats! I could only imagine how wonderful it was to get to the top and get engaged!!! Lucky girl!
@lllouise- That is totally something I would have done... kept on eating the ice cream... thinking to myself YES that would be nice. How surprised were you??? Congrats!
I love hearing all your stories! It is not every day where we get to tell our stories... I just like to re-live mine in my head!
We were in Vegas to attend his cousin's wedding. While there, he surprised me with a trip to the Grand Canyon for my birthday, which had been a couple weeks before.
The trip started with a luxury double decker motorcoach tour (basically a new bus with air conditioning). The bus tour included the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead and a joshua tree forest.
Once at the Canyon, we boarded a helicopter (my first time ever) and went on an aerial tour of the Canyon. As luck would have it, I got to sit up front as the co-pilot with glass at my feet, above my head and all around me on three sides. My love has an amazing photo of me looking back at him in the back of the helicopter, I look like I am going to explode with excitement. I even cried as we went over the edge and down into the canyon. If you have seen the canyon before, you will understand why...it is incredible!
The helicopter landed in the canyon and we started a short hike down to the river where we boarded a boat and toured up the Colorado river. I was snapping pictures like mad...I even got to drive the boat for a bit! We made sure to stick our hands in the water of the river which is believed to bring good luck.
At the end of the boat tour, we boarded the helicopter again which took us further down the canyon and then circled back to land at our starting point. As I got out of the helicopter, I reached back, took his hand and screamed "This is the best day of my life!" as we ran off the landing pad. He had a huge grin on his face but I thought nothing of it. I thought he was just proud that I was enjoying his plans so much and that he was also enjoying it.
Getting bored yet?
We then hopped on another bus that took us to another viewing point of the canyon. Arriving at Eagle Point, was yet another surprise. Once there, we went inside a building and had to hand over our bags, cameras, purse, wallet, basically anything that was loose which was tucked away in a locker. After going through a metal detector, which he set off twice blaming it on change in a zipped pocket, we were on our way.
Taking our first steps out onto an open air glass pathway that cantilevers over 4,000 feet above the canyon floor. Having gone a few steps out, we reached the first photographer who takes photos of you on the Skywalk. Just before he was about to take the picture, my fiance asked him to wait a moment and started to get down on one knee. I, thinking he was going to be silly and sit down on the glass or just otherwise be a goof, basically smacked him upside the head and told him not to ruin the one and only photo I was going to have of us on the Skywalk but quickly stopped.
Down on one knee, standing over 4,000 feet in the air on a piece of glass on easily one of the best days of my life with the man I love, he asked me to marry him. I didn't cry. I didn't even respond right away. My brain was so entirely overwhelmed by the entire day that it just couldn't comprehend this moment. It seemed surreal. All I remember is thinking "you have to say something", "speak", "say something!" At which point, he got a rather broken "Yes!".
Though I didn't cry in the moment, I cried on the phone with my Mom when we got back to the hotel. I cry pretty much every time I tell the story. And every time I write it! I am so incredibly fortunate to have found my love and am thrilled to be spending the rest of my life with him.
As an added bonus, I have THE most incredible photos of the proposal from the photographers on the Skywalk. Photos of the actual engagement with the incredible view behind us and photos of us post engagement all cuddly and romantic. (Fortunately they had a deal where you could purchase all of them on a USB without having to give them your first born!)
I feel like I just wrote a novel...sorry, it's a long one but hopefully you'll enjoy!
@ Skywall.. you making me feel bad now.. mine isnt as long or awesome as yours..lol.. or extreme..
My FI took me to San Francisco.. we been there many times so it wasnt a suprise to go there.. but than we stopped at a helicopter base.. It was always my dream to fly on a helicopter.. So we went on a one hour helicopter ride around the whole SF.. passing downtown, freeways, Altetraz, Golden Gate bridge, flying on top of the ocean.. we even got to see a HUGE whale in the water.. our pilot got as close to the water as he could.. it was amazing..
The weather could have not been better.. Sunny..warm..just perfect.. Than our pilot dropped us off on a isolated mountain right by the ocean.. The view was magnificent.. Our pilot left leaving just the two of us and no one around us.. Thats when he asked me to marry him.. I said NO...haha.. just kidding.. I said YES... It could have not been a better moment! Its more than I ever could think of.. The pilot came back 15 minutes later and we continued flying for another half an hour exploring SF.. It was amazing.. *sights*
@ LonnieBunny I love your story! I love San Francisco...that would have been awesome!
I know this is an older post but I was compelled to share our story. We were vacationing in Italy and never saw ti coming. We had already spent several days in Venice, which is just amazing and so romantic, so you can imagine my surprise when he popped the question as the sun was setting in the Boboli Gardens in Florence. We then went on to Rome for several more days and I was so giddy and floating on air that I daydreamed thru the rest of the trip!
I have one! It's not me but my sister's best friend. Here is their website with the proposal story: http://jamieandkyle.com/Engagement/index.htm
In short, a surprise trip to Paris she was not expecting complete with limo ride to the airport and instructions of what was to occur over the next 24 hours (minus the important 'what is going on' and 'where am I going' details). Very Bourne Identity-ish.
Fi suprised me at the 4th of July fireworks. It was a big concert in our city, with firewroks after and the fair going on. He got on stage and proposed!!! Not what I expected from shy FI. It was very sweet. AND nerve- racking!
@Ms. Caniche: WOW! How romantic! He had it all planned out to the last detail! Great Story! Thanks for sharing!!!
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So I want to know if any of you Bees have had any "extreme" engagements. Extreme or elaborate... I want to hear it.
Mine was an experience of a lifetime. My FI told me that we were going to dinner for our 2 year anniversary. Our 1 year anniversary was rather disappointing... (I was pretty upset that we did nothing) So he got a car that took us to the airport... totally unexpected. We got on a plane and flew to Napa. We had dinner at French Laundry, drank a beautiful bottle of champagne. After dinner he asked me to marry him. I was so overwhelmed with it all I couldn't believe it.... In complete tears of joy, I cried out a yes!!!!!
I didn't know that we were not coming home when we left the house. He fedex'ed a change of clothes and a tooth brushes for us both. It was the most amazing day of my life. We spent the night in Napa, in a small Bed & Breakfast and flew home the next day. It was completely wonderful!
So VOILA my story... anyone else have any extreme engagements?????
*** There was not an engagement board that I could find... if there is one I would have liked to post it there***